Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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Page 38
... thought I would take a hand in it myself . " Mr. Lincoln was a humorist of another school . He delighted in parables and stories . His treasures of memory were in- exhaustible . He never failed for an illustration . He liked the short ...
... thought I would take a hand in it myself . " Mr. Lincoln was a humorist of another school . He delighted in parables and stories . His treasures of memory were in- exhaustible . He never failed for an illustration . He liked the short ...
Page 43
... thought if , in another Capitol , in another Republic , in a yet more martial age , a Sen- ator as grave , not more eloquent or dignified than the Senator from Kentucky , yet with the Roman purple flowing over his shoulders , had risen ...
... thought if , in another Capitol , in another Republic , in a yet more martial age , a Sen- ator as grave , not more eloquent or dignified than the Senator from Kentucky , yet with the Roman purple flowing over his shoulders , had risen ...
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... thought it was Sumner who answered Baker's interrogatory , " What would have been done with a Roman Senator guilty of such treason ? " by exclaiming that " He would have been hurled from the Tarpeian Rock . " And he denounced the ...
... thought it was Sumner who answered Baker's interrogatory , " What would have been done with a Roman Senator guilty of such treason ? " by exclaiming that " He would have been hurled from the Tarpeian Rock . " And he denounced the ...
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... thought of the terrible fut- ure before us , and that I should outlive many who were then in the prime of a vigorous manhood . Young as I was , I was ed- itor enough to know the leaders , either personally or by name . STATESMEN OF ...
... thought of the terrible fut- ure before us , and that I should outlive many who were then in the prime of a vigorous manhood . Young as I was , I was ed- itor enough to know the leaders , either personally or by name . STATESMEN OF ...
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... thought they did sometimes in their impulses , but when the passion passed off they forgave like gods . Mean men only live in the darkness of malice . It is the great soul alone that outlives in history and memory the mean soul , unless ...
... thought they did sometimes in their impulses , but when the passion passed off they forgave like gods . Mean men only live in the darkness of malice . It is the great soul alone that outlives in history and memory the mean soul , unless ...
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